Essays about: "Rural Non-Farm Economy"

Found 5 essays containing the words Rural Non-Farm Economy.

  1. 1. A climate of difference: gender, farming, and climate variability : an investigation into the varied experience of gender vulnerability and agency among small-scale farmers in Ky Anh district, Central Vietnam

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and Management

    Author : Eoin O'Dwyer; [2020]
    Keywords : Gender; Climate Variability; Differentiated Vulnerability; Agency; Intersectionality; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This study explores gender identity, vulnerability, and agency in the lives of smallholder farmers, within the context of climate variability in Ky Anh, Central Vietnam. The study first explores how gender identity and power is constructed within everyday rural practices. READ MORE

  3. 2. Why People Are Moving Out of Agriculture: Micro-Evidence from Uganda and Ethiopia

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Jasmin Bina; [2020]
    Keywords : Rural Non-Farm Economy; Ethiopia; Uganda; Push Factors; Pull Factors; Capacity Factors; Multinomial Logit Model; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : This paper studies the determinants shaping the likelihood of being active in the non-farm sector in the rural economies of Sub-Saharan Africa. More specifically, the push, pull and capacity factors for a cross-sectional sample of rural Uganda and Ethiopia are explored. READ MORE

  4. 3. Income diversification, market participation and urban proximity as determinants of exit from rural poverty: Evidence from Ethiopia and Tanzania

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

    Author : Tillmann von Carnap-Bornheim; [2017]
    Keywords : Market Participation; Household enterprises; Structural transformation; Economic geography; Ethiopia and Tanzania;

    Abstract : It seems unlikely that Sub-Saharan Africa can follow the Asian experience of structural transformation through export-led growth. Rather, it has to rely on domestic sources to achieve substantial reductions in poverty. One such driver could be growing urban populations with increasing demand for rural products and services. READ MORE

  5. 4. Women’s Education in Four Villages in Kenya: The Perceived Outcomes on Livelihoods and Household Welfare

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi

    Author : Sara Bengtson; [2014]
    Keywords : development studies; livelihood diversification; household welfare; women’s education; Kenya; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis is concerned with women’s education and the perceived effects it might have on households’ livelihood diversification into the rural non-farm economy. In addition, it looks at household welfare and how women’s education and potentially livelihood diversification adds to better welfare. READ MORE

  6. 5. Rural Clusters: Promoting Structural Transformation in Armenia

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and Management

    Author : Aleksey Hovakimyan; [2009]
    Keywords : rural non-farm economy RNFE ; rural farm economy RFE ; structural transformation; cluster; rural development; Social Sciences; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : The purpose of this thesis was to investigate the possibility of application of the cluster based rural development approach in Armenia to promote its structural transformation. Case study was selected as a research methodology, and both qualitative and quantitative methods were employed. Analysis of the key findings from the ‘field’, i.e. READ MORE